Archipelagoes of the Indian Ocean

Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia, located in the eastern Arabian Sea, within the northern Indian Ocean. Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about from the Asian continent's mainland. Maldives' chain of 26 atolls stretches across the equator from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south.

territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean

Lakshadweep () is a union territory of India. It is an archipelago of 36 islands divided into three island subgroups: the Amindivi Islands in the north, the Laccadive Islands (separated from Amindivi roughly by the 11th parallel north), and the atoll of Minicoy to the south of the Nine Degree Channel. The islands are located between the Arabian Sea to the west and the Laccadive Sea to the east, about off the Malabar Coast of mainland India.

archipelago between mainland Southeast Asia and Australia

archipelago in the Bay of Bengal

archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, and one of the districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands

island group in the Indian Ocean

archipelago in the Indian Ocean

archipelago in Tanzania

district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean

archipelago east of Madagascar

sub-Antarctic islands belonging to South Africa

archipelago

desert islands in the Gulf of Bahrain

Seychelles group of islands

Australian island group